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My travels in Mexico --- Chapel of the Rosary, La Antigua, Mexico --- The First Church Built in America

The first Christian worship service in Mexico was in 

Ermita del Rosario, First Church Built in the Americas, La Antigua, Mexico – Best Places In The World To Retire – International Living1519 in La Antigua, Veracruz. Four years later the first chapel in the Americas was built by Hernán Cortés and is named the Chapel of the Rosary (Ermita del Rosario). It is a picturesque tiny church in the beautiful lush green setting of the tropical rain forest.

 

 

The town of La Antigua is considered to be the first real Spanish town in the country and was established...

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Mombacho Puro (Cigar) Party, Nicaragua

Kent Payne at annual cigar party in Granada, Nicaragua – Best Places In The World To Retire – International LivingWhile I'm not a big cigar user, I like to visit one of the newest attractions in Nicaragua.  We have, in the years past, driven all the way to Esteli to purchase cigars for resale or for gifts to my golf buddies back in the states.  And my son Josh gets some real mileage when he produces a handful of freshly rolled Nicaraguan tobacco to his golf friends. So I'm always on the hunt for new product.
 
I didn't remember that the weekend that I was...

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The Road

 Good roads leave no traces in the memory – smooth, seamless, without jarring bumps or sudden twists, they are the silent asphalt arteries that carry us from one place to another as we go about our daily lives, never calling attention to themselves. Not so with bad roads.  A bad road, like a bad marriage, feels endless, terminal, and impossible to escape, even years later.
 
I have seen many bad roads around the world. Some in Central America are...

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